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 Ctenophora?
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| remlabk |
Posted on 21-05-2007 09:36
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Member Location: Bedfordshire, UK Posts: 6 Joined: 20.05.07 |
Can you identify this please? Photographed 20th May 2007 in King's Wood (SP9230), Bedfordshire, UK, in boulder clay deciduous woodland. Flying around a pile of logs, on which it finally settled. (Someone suggested to me Ctenophora atrata but according to the NBN gateway it doesn't seem to be in this region?). Thanks, Keith Balmer remlabk attached the following image:  [87.46Kb] |
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| kitenet |
Posted on 21-05-2007 11:54
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 Member Location: Buckinghamshire, UK Posts: 118 Joined: 04.05.06 |
Hi Keith, Definitely not C. ornata, which has a large blackish spot near the wing-tip. I'm pretty sure this is Ctenophora pectinicornis (female), which is a bit more widespread than C. ornata and C. flaveolata (although as chance would have it it's the only Ctenophora I've not seen in the flesh). Associated with large dead trees especially Beech. There's a photo of pectinicornis in the diptera.info gallery under Tipulidae, although that specimen is less yellow than yours. Martin Martin Harvey |
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| remlabk |
Posted on 22-05-2007 20:38
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Member Location: Bedfordshire, UK Posts: 6 Joined: 20.05.07 |
Thanks Martin. Now you've provided a name a bit more surfing found a Roger Key picture of your suggestion that seems identical. The fairly current NBN dataset appears to show no Beds records so I'd better get this to the recording scheme, but I can't find any email address, just snail mail, so I may have to post it, unless you know of an electronic mechanism? Thanks again, Keith |
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| kitenet |
Posted on 22-05-2007 21:14
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Member Location: Buckinghamshire, UK Posts: 118 Joined: 04.05.06 |
Keith, I've sent you a private message with an email address for John Kramer of the cranefly recording scheme, if it doesn't reach you contact me at work and I'll send it from there. Martin Martin Harvey |
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| Chen Young |
Posted on 13-08-2007 19:24
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 Member Location: Pittsburgh, PENNSYLVANIA USA Posts: 169 Joined: 25.08.05 |
Could this one be female of Ctenophora guttata? |
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